Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Famous, Infamous, and Forgotten The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Unicorn Selfies: […]
Glen LeLievre leads off today’s roundup of dubious pieces and dubious claims, with a cartoon that has been getting a lot of reposts on social media.The dubious part isn’t that it deals with a religious subject at that religion’s most sacred time of year, because it doesn’t mock any theological beliefs. In fact, it seems […]
Sorry about the tight deadline (April 20, 2022) but here’s a fun project for the cartoonist in your family. RubeGoldberg.com hosts the famous annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest where building a physical Rube Goldberg contraption is the object. Now they have added a cartoon contest!Details and rules at RubeGoldberg.com New at GoComicsWhile Andrews McMeel Syndication is […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Angelo Torres joins our Senior Strippers as he turn 90 years old, having a birth date of April 14, 1932. Early on in his career Angelo became a member of what Harvey Kurtzman (or Nancy Gaines) dubbed The Fleagle Gang – Roy Krenkel, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, […]
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS).I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting down […]
A couple months ago we noted that the Washington Post Writers Group was “winding down” its syndicated editorial cartoon service. Their comic strip division may also be slowing down, if not ending. The creators of the Pickles comic strip and the Loose Parts comic panel have told The Daily Cartoonist that come June their features will […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced that Jeannie Schulz will receive the Silver T-Square at this year’s Reuben Awards ceremony. On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, it is our great pleasure to announce that Jeannie Schulz will be awarded the Silver T-Square at the 76th Annual Reuben Awards in […]
There comes a time when each man must come to grips with the truth, though, as shown in Mr. Boffo, it may turn out that nobody was fooled in the first place.Framed here in Joe Martin’s “How dumb can you get?” style, it’s funny, but if you overthink it — and I’m a champion at […]
Bill Lee was a well-known magazine and syndicated newspaper cartoonist from the 1970s to, well, whenever.Said Allan Holtz:Cartoonist Bill Lee was one of the crop of excellent new gag cartoonists to come out of the 1970s, a time when cartoons about battling spouses and family pets were giving way to more esoteric, avant-garde material. […]
Publishers Weekly recently reported on AMP. “In early 2020, we were holding our breath—we didn’t know what to expect,” said Andrews McMeel Publishing president and publisher Kirsty Melville. “It turned out to be a very good year, and 2021 just continued that momentum.” Sales last year were up 25% from 2019, she added. AMP, a […]
Cartoonist Robb Armstrong, of JumpStart fame, was interviewed by WCVB -TV in Boston about his comic strip, The Franklin Project, and his upcoming appearance at the Boston Comics in Color Festival.Watch the four minute interview.News: Robb is collaborating on a new Franklin/Peanuts screenplay!
In 1926 Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) began a series of stories about American heroes.These were brief one week (six daily comic strips) biographies about famous historical figures such as Nathan Hale, Molly Pitcher, George Custer, Betsy Ross, and others. Then they broke the mold by doing a two week (12 day) life story of Edgar […]
So far this century Marvel Entertainment has ruled the comics inspired film world, that is about to change as Andrews McMeel Entertainment begins its challenge for supremacy.Until now I didn’t realize there was an Andrews McMeel film division.From Cartoon Brew: Originally set to release in 2020 but delayed by COVID-19 setbacks, the new animated Marmaduke […]
Our comment feature appears to be broken beyond repair, at least for our current platform, which inspires (finally!) a redesign, which will take a while. In the meantime, we hope you’ll give us feedback on the social media where we announce our new postings. (Illo by Henry Justice Ford) There’s a lot of political commentary in […]
The American Newspaper Publishers Association Convention in 1926 was naturally covered by Editor & Publisher. E&P previewed it in their April 17, 1926 edition. Included with that issue was a comic supplement which featured original comic strips by a number of syndicated cartoonists all concerning publishers, editors, and the convention.It is proper that it was […]